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My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

Joy Harjo

Differences, Trying, And Love

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Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Luis Bunuel

Years, Horror, Newspapers

Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.228, Random House

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Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

Harry Reid

Horror Stories, America, News

"Harry Reid Takes to the Senate Floor to Tell You the ‘Truth’ About All Those Obamacare ‘Horror Stories’". Harry Reid's speech on the floor of the Senate in Washington, D.C., www.theblaze.com. February 26, 2014.

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Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

Jeffrey Sachs

Cutting, Agency, Hands

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It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.

J. M. Coetzee

Sympathy, Heart, Islands

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Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

Camille Paglia

Depression, Smart, Careers

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Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

Ray Martin

Women, Boss, Important

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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

Walter Scott

Home, Heart, Men

Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.42

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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

William Blake

Love, Loss, Self

'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.

Richard Hastings

Halloween, Trends, Slam

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In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.

James Frey

Simple, Looks, Answers

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Despite my best efforts I’ve seen you naked before – doesn’t do much for me so no worries.

Stephenie Meyer

Best Effort, Worry, Naked

Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.156, Hachette UK

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I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Jodi Picoult

Butterfly, Hands, Dying

Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.235, Penguin

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Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

Sarah Dessen

Dad, People, Stories

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.59, Penguin

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I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.

Elizabeth Scott

Dream, Tired, Facts

Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist.

Simone Elkeles

Girl, Dream, Boys

Simone Elkeles (2013). “Leaving Paradise”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

Victor Hugo

War, Humanity, Outrage

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.

Suzanne Collins

Beautiful, Dream, Hands

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1455, Scholastic Inc.

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But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if your strong enough," said Jace firmly. He reached out, and she felt the back of his hand brush her cheek.

Cassandra Clare

Strong, Hands, Voice

Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Crazy, Addiction, Giving

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There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.

Jim Butcher

Wall, Night, Light

Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.260, Penguin

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Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.

Sarah Dessen

Differences, Way, Understood

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.171, Penguin

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With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.

Gail Carriger

Eye, Water, Gowns

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At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.

Ai Yazawa

Dream, Falling In Love, Pain

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Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

Danielle Steel

Writing, Mean, Survival

Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

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